Windows Server 2012: Roles & Features
A colleague asked me earlier today if I knew off the top of my head how many roles and features there are in Windows Server 2012, and I had to admit that I did not know. As Albert Einstein once said,...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Protecting your information with Dynamic Access Control
There is a lot of new stuff in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory.Active Directory management enhancementsActive Directory Administrative CenterActive Directory Recycle Bin managementFine-Grained...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012: Roles & Features
A colleague asked me earlier today if I knew off the top of my head how many roles and features there are in Windows Server 2012, and I had to admit that I did not know. As Albert Einstein once said,...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Protecting your information with Dynamic Access Control
There is a lot of new stuff in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory.Active Directory management enhancementsActive Directory Administrative CenterActive Directory Recycle Bin managementFine-Grained...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Deploy a new Linux VM from a captured image
Hello folks, in my last post we discussed who to capture an existing Linux machine in Azure in order to be able to deploy new instances of that machine. In effect turning that machine into a template....
View ArticlePowerShell Basics: Copying The Output Of The Last PowerShell Command To...
I recently needed to copy and paste a PowerShell script output. While poking around in PowerShell, I discovered that both trying to copy and paste it out of PowerShell or hitting the up arrow and...
View ArticleIT’s Latest Challenge: Innovation and Transformation
I have been oddly quite here on CANITPRO.NET as of late and with good reason. Over the summer I was asked to contemplate Microsoft’s three core ambitions: Create more personal computing Reinvent...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Creating a DNS zone in Azure
Hello Folks, We all know that DNS is responsible for resolving a website or service name to its IP address. Now, you can use Azure DNS. It’s a hosting service for DNS domains using Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Excluding Users or Usergroups from Group Policy
Sometimes excluding a user or user group from a group policy is needed to appease an application setting or system setting. I’ve seen administrators create separate OU and move users there to exclude...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Installing MySQL on Nano Server via PowerShell
Recently, Pierre Roman was in town presenting 10 Things I like About Windows Server 2016 to the Toronto ITPRO Usergroup. While presenting, he white-boarded a couple of questions for Pierre and I to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Partnership Between OMS and System Center Configuration...
Microsoft announced new licensing options on October 1st 2106 making it very attractive for OMS managed servers to have a ConfigMgr license bundled with it. Could this be the renaissance of server...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Setup Docker on your Windows 2016 Server
Hello Folks a couple weeks ago i was delivering a session on Windows Server 2016. During that session i covered the Container support in Windows Server 2016. I see huge possibilities with...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Enabling the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol on an Azure...
In Active Directory environment, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is responsible for reading and writing data from AD. By default, the LDAP traffic is transmitted in and unsecure...
View ArticleNano Server Image Builder
Hello folks, I was looking at some questions i got in my last user group sessions where we were discussing Microsoft Windows Server 2016. i was going to answer one of them in this post. “how do you...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Enabling Custom Domain Names in Azure via PowerShell
Simplicity of domain name assignment are sometimes just as important as the content the site showcases. When creating a site on Azure however, the site is assigned as a subdomain of cloudapp.net. The...
View ArticlePowerShell Basics: Retrieve All The Security Patches Installed On A Server...
I recently needed to acquire a list of all the security patches installed on a group of servers within the last year. I discovered that there is a WMI class for this which makes it super easy to...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Manage all your servers from anywhere, on any browser, for free
Hello folks, I keep having a conversation with IT professionals about managing Windows Servers and my preference for Core and now Nano servers where it makes sense. I’ve always preferred remote...
View ArticleStep-By-Step: Creating an Organizational Unit in an Azure AD Domain Service...
Organizational units (OU) in Active Directory are containers where users, computers, groups and other organization units are placed. These containers help create Active Directory’s logical structure...
View ArticleCloud4Good: Building a Child Finder BOT to aid Missing Children Society of...
Children today are technology natives. Harnessing technology to play, share and learn. With this empowerment comes great responsibility of parents and of the children themselves. Who kids chat with...
View ArticleCloud4Good: Setting up Infrastructure as code on behalf of Missing Children...
Hello Folks, I don’t normally write posts about specific references to customers. It’s normally something like “I was working with a customer when…” but this time I wanted to highlight some learnings...
View Article